Archive for the ‘sports’ Category

A Texas fisherman took first place in a tournament — and broke a 37-year-old record — when he landed a 1,033 pound hammerhead shark.

Tim McClellan was fishing in Texas City as part of the 55th Annual Tackle Time Fishing Tournament, hosted by the Texas City/La Marque Jaycees, when he managed to reel the hammerhead into the waystation of the Texas City Dike.

“You can fish all your life and not catch something like this,” McClellen told KHOU-TV. “It’s the one monster I’d been looking for for 20 years.” More

A fair bunt during a Major League Baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres turned “fowl” when a bird showed up on the field.

Video from the game’s telecast Tuesday shows a bird resting in the grass, just beneath where Diamondbacks infielder Paul Goldschmidt placed his glove to field a bunt by a Padres batter in the third inning.

A British rugby game saw the emergence of a new superstar in the sport: A Canada goose that wandered onto the field and attempted a tackle.

Nathan Swarbrick posted a video to Instagram showing the goose running onto the field Saturday during play of a Rugby Football Union National League game between Caldy and Sedgley Tigers.

The goose, rather than attempt to flee the violent sport, ran directly into the scrum, and even appeared to attempt at least one tackle, which was nearly successful when it managed to tangle itself in a player’s legs.

Swarbrick said the goose wasn’t the first animal he’s seen interrupting a rugby game. More

Basketball player Akil Mitchell went up for a rebound Thursday and came down with a frightening eye injury in Auckland, New Zealand.

His eyeball appeared to pop out of its socket, prompting broadcasters to call for immediate emergency help.

Mitchell, playing for the New Zealand Breakers of the National Basketball League, was apparently poked by Cairns center Nnanna Egwu, causing his left eye to suddenly burst forth, Australian Associated Press wrote. MoreGraphic Video

PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh Pirates fan attempting to catch a foul ball ended up with something far messier — a face full of his own nachos.

The spectator at Wednesday’s game between the Pirates and the San Diego Padres at PNC Park in Pittsburgh was caught on camera standing and lunging to catch a foul ball hit by Pirates player Jung Ho Kang.

The man missed the ball, but ended up tossing his plate of nachos into his own face.

The fan’s messy spectacle wasn’t fully a waste — the Pirates hooked him up with a free replacement T-shirt. More

PERSHAGEN, Sweden – Audible flatulence resulted in one Swedish soccer player being ejected early during a lower-league match.

The Guardian reports that Pershagen SK defender Adam Lindin Ljungkvist, 25, was given a red card and sent out of a match against Järna SK’s reserve team after the referee determined that his fart was “deliberate provocation” and “unsportsmanlike behavior.”

“I had a bad stomach, so I simply let go,” Ljungkvist said.

“Then I received two yellow cards and then red. Yes, I was shocked, it’s the strangest thing I have ever experienced in football.” More

Alaska – In case you missed it, boys are now allowed to compete against girls in female sports in the name of equality. Seems fair, right?

One mother, who has personal experience with such faux equality, is crying foul.

Jennifer VanPelt’s high school freshman daughter was bumped off Alaska’s track and field female state finals’ podium for a boy—and she’s furious.

As The Daily Wire previously reported, a boy who self-identifies as a girl, Nattaphon Wangyot, competed in Alaska’s female track and field state finals on Friday. The male athlete from Haines High School cleaned up, taking home all-state honors. Source

Minnesota - A girls’ basketball team has claimed they have been told they can no longer play in their local league because they are ‘too talented’.

The Rogers Area Youth Basketball Association (RAYBA) girls’ high school team in Minnesota say they were told by the North West Suburban Basketball League that they would be no longer welcome to play matches due to their ‘skill level’.

They say that the news came in a letter just the day before they were due to play in a showcase tournament and while the girls were on a three game winning streak.

It read: ‘The Northwest Suburban Basketball League decided RAYBA does not fit into the league. More

For most of us that watched Ronda Rousey get upset by Holly Holm during the main event of UFC 193, it appeared that Rousey was simply bested by an opponent that most had underestimated.

Holm went into the bout as a 20-1 underdog against the reigning women’s bantamweight champion, but stunned Rousey and spectators around the world with a left kick to Rousey’s head that gave her the knockout victory.

However, not everything is as it might first appear, at least according to former WWE wrestling great and current host of “The Taz Show, Bodyslams and Beyond” on CBS’ Radio.com. More